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The word 'mowser'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mowserOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4133
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 42.5 13 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mowser in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
d aul days The Big Yin wi his mowser aff He'll fair gie abody a la on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
h'm mebbe gettin a bittie o a mowser?" speered Joyce, studyin erse on page 40
a maanie wi a lang chin an a mowser. Ah teen a keek on page 60

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ike yer Unty Tibby - she's a mowser like a byre brush." on page 68

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
worrit o a craitur wi a reid mowser on her tapmaist lip an a perm
h, trim chiel wi a braw broon mowser like the Kaiser's, an a fob w
zored awa his stibble, an his mowser wis washed an caimbed as gran
sax, an auld bodach wi a fite mowser that needit a stick tae wauk.
dit a stick tae wauk. An da's mowser's broon, Betsy, wi jist a twa
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
mowser, a plaidie coloured blue that
duntit his snoot, booed his mowser, an fin he lickit his paws ta
pink mowser. Puir Suzy. Dowie an wae, she
t tears treetle doon her pink mowser. She hidna kent she wis stink
4 matches

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